You can monitor 20 devices from Cisco to Win2003 servers and RHEL with this program. OpManager works good. http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/opmanager/
Enjoy ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:55 am Subject: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap To: [email protected] > In my real-life job as a systems and network engineer I was given > a task of finding a product that would monitor both my netwerkin stuff > so far as ports and stats, as well as Windows server processes, and > concentrate on things that don't cost an arm and a leg and a co- > worker'ssalary per year. Well, there went HP Openview. > > So I evaluated a dozen or so and found a suprise find that > I can't recommend, but might be worth checking out. It's not quite > for a co-location company, and not quite for a Fortune 500 company, > but for the smaller shops I thought it worth at least mentioning. > > I can't recommend it because it's HostMonitor 5 from KS Software. > http://www.ks-soft.net on your internet dial. I've not found much on > the company and near as I can tell it's probably one guy coding late > into the night in his PJ's with a bottle of vodka at his side and > muttering swear words at Microsoft in Russian. Or maybe that's > just me. > > On the other hand, his HostMonitor product beat the crap out > of stuff costing twenty times the price, per year, and though it's > not the prettiest web-page, giving the health of your NOC for under > $1000 I can live with ugly web pages, log to a SQL server, and make > my own pretty reports for manglement. > > On the netwerkin' side you have to supply the MIB to query. > That's a pain when you've routers with 20 different interfaces since > this doesn't automatically identify them as Int FastEthernet0/0 on a > Cisco 3745. Frankly, I don't care about that so much as this thing > will query Windows Perfmon stats. Want to know CPU usage? It's > there. Want to scan event logs? It's there. Want to telnet to > port 27015 and look for a response? It's there. How about the status > of a single process that isn't a service? It's there. > Alerts can be escalated, yadda yadda yadda. Read the fluff on the > web page above. I don't buy all that stuff either, and I'm still > playing with it against my own network, but at this sort of price > I can afford to do at least premliminary scans with it and use the > more specific tools for other tasks and save on licensing fees. > The support for external batch files, VB scripts, and such > are just icing on the cake. > > Just thought I'd throw it out there for your consideration. > I've no connection with the company, never even knew they existed > prior to a couple of weeks ago, and honestly I think other products > do it better. But at his prices I don't care if I get a license > and he has a heart attack tomorrow, I'm saving a wad of cash over > the flashier products and that makes me look good on mahogany row. > > > - Dan > > * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 A.H.M.C. #35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * > * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * > * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
